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Academic learning at home resources have been created to provide opportunities for students to engage in meaningful learning experience during the school closure. Below you will find a list of activities that your child can complete both independently and with your support.
Learning Logs are to be completed each day when work is done. These logs will be turned in at the end of the week to your teacher. Your teacher will be in contact with you this week. If you have any questions, please contact your teacher.
Reading
Reading
Find time for your reading life! Find a comfy spot and read. Read to self, read to a stuffed animal, or read to a family member.
Watch this video “Rabbit Roundup” (This ties to science this week) Rabbit Roundup and watch bunnies in action. After the video, tell someone what you learned about rabbits and how they meet their basic needs. Then draw a picture about what you learned and label it. Use as many sounds, letters, and words as you can when describing your picture. Try writing 3-5 sentences about what you learned. If you cannot watch this video, go outside and observe nature. Find an insect, bird, or other animal to observe and complete this activity.
Watch the story “Morris’s Disappearing Bag” and read the book “Farm Animals Rabbits” (this ties to science this week). Click here for links Online Texts, and go to Week 1. Discuss the two books with your family. Draw pictures in order to retell the story “Morris’s Disappearing Bag” and make sure they are in order. Practice retelling the story to a family member using your pictures. Draw a picture of what you learned from the book “Farm Animals Rabbits”. After you draw and color pictures about facts you learned, label your picture. Use as many sounds, letters, and words as you can when describing your picture. Try writing 3-5 sentences about what you learned. If you cannot access the link above, read books you have at home and complete the activities listed.
Write about a local hero such as a policeman, firefighter, teacher, nurse/healthcare worker, doctor, principal, or first-responder (this ties to social studies this week). Draw a picture of your local hero. Then write to explain why you chose him/her and why you think they are a local hero.
*Note: If you have any problems connecting to any of the links above, these resources can be found on the Scholastic Learn at Home page: https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html. Just choose the appropriate grade level and a variety of texts are available including the ones suggested here.
Math
Math
Draw a picture of a job that needs math skills and write or tell about why math skills are needed for this job. (e.g-A chef has to know how to measure, use fractions, add and subtract…)
Cut out pictures from a magazine or newspaper and decide if they are a want or a need. Label your pictures.
Jobs are ways to earn income. Pretend to play what job you want to have when you grow up.
Make a list of the skills you will need (e.g. a doctor needs to know how to read, how to write, how to do math, and in science, the parts of the human body)
Create props (e.g. an old coat for a doctor’s coat, make a stethoscope out of paper or materials, gather some paper to take your notes on as you see patients, and use stuffed animals for patients.
Grab bag: Fill a bag with different items (toys, fruits, vegetables, empty water bottles) and draw items out, one at a time. As you choose an item, decide if it is a want or a need. You can even make a list, diagram, or graph.
Science connection-draw a picture with 5 different organisms and draw their needs. Are any the same needs as yours? (e.g. A sunflower and a puppy both need food. So do you!)
Science
Science
Basic needs are what an organism must have to survive. Animals require air, food, water, space, and sometimes shelter. Plants require sunlight, air, water, nutrients (food), and space.
Plants and animals have basic needs that are the same and some that are different. Draw a Venn diagram (two overlapping circles). Label one circle ANIMALS and the other PLANTS. In the overlapping area, write or draw the basic needs that plants and animals share. In the ANIMALS circle write or draw a basic need only animals have. In the PLANTS circle write or draw a basic need only animals have.
Take a walk and observe some plants. Take a leaf from two different plants. Back at home tape each leaf to a piece of paper. Have your child draw the rest of the plant around the leaf. Talk about how all plants have leaves to collect the sunlight. Plants have a stem or trunk to hold the leaves up to get sunshine. Underground there are roots to take in water for the plant. Some plants have big colorful flowers.
Gather some basic craft items: a straw (the plant’s stem), some string (the plant’s roots), green paper (the plant’s leaves) and colored tissue paper (the plant’s flower), glue and scissors. On a piece of paper or cardboard, glue the different materials to make a plant.
Watch the birds in your yard several times during the day. What are the birds doing to meet their basic needs? Keep a bird watching journal of pictures of the birds you watch. If you are lucky and a squirrel is in your yard, record what it is doing to meet its needs.
If you have a family pet, what does your pet need to survive? Draw a picture with labels to show what your pet needs.
Inside the house in a container or outside in a pot or the ground, plant some seeds with your child. The seeds can be from a seed packet you purchase or the seeds from the fresh fruits or vegetables you are eating. What do plants need to survive? Your student can keep a journal of the growth of the new plant.
Continue watching an animal cam to see how the animals are meeting their basic needs.
Social Studies
Social Studies
What is a hero? How do heroes help other people? Draw a picture of someone you think is a hero.
Read a story or book about a hero in history. Talk about what the person did that made him/her a hero. Draw a picture of the person.
Talk about a hero in your family or group of friends. Possibly a first responder, nurse or doctor, or someone working to help the community during this time of Covid-19. What is he/she doing to help other people? Draw a picture of this current day hero.
Make a visual timeline of events in your child’s life. Have your child draw a picture for each event. Date of birth, first tooth, took first step, said first word, etc. Discuss that all these events happened in the past. Ask them what future events they are looking forward to, like the first day of 1st grade, first two-wheeler bike, etc. Discuss that these events all happen in the future.
P.E.
P.E.
Activities you can do for a lifetime! Go walk, ride a bike, swim, hike!
Videos to help get you moving!
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